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UNITED STATES PATENT ALVIN, L. BINGO, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COURT FILE-CASE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,384, dated March20, 1883.

Application filed August 12, 1882. (No model.)

ten of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in CourtFile-Gases, of which the following is a specification, to wit:

This invention relates to cases having vertical overlapping compartmentsfor holding files of legal documents and other papers; and it consistsin the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinventionpertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure1 is a perspective View of my device partly opened. Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section through the upper part of my file-holder; and Fig. 3 isa perspective view of portions of two of the vertical divisions of thecase, showing the grooves in which the removable partitions and bottomsare applied.

Similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the severalviews.

A representsaeaseof any desired size,which I prefer to make withinclined front as shown, and drawer B in the bottom. The case A isprovided -vvith a series of vertical divisionpieces 0 0, arranged uponthe same incline as the froutofthecase and provided with aback ,D.

The division-pieces (1-0 are provided with parallel grooves c c, whichare at such an angle that when the pieces G U are arranged in the casethe said grooves will be exactly perpendicular, and they are alsoprovided with crossgrooves at d, which, when the pieces are in position,will be horizontal, or at right angles to the grooves cc. Theperpendicular grooves may, of course, be of any number desired, but Iprefer to so place them that four may always be counted upon anyhorizontal groove, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. In the correspondinghorizontal grooves d d, on the opposing sides of two of the divisions OC, I slip the ends of a small thin strip of wood, metal, or any suitablematerial, f, which forms the bottom of a compartment, and in thevertical groove 0 c, at the forward edge of this strip f, I slip a widerstrip, e, forming the front of this compartment, which strip 0 extendspast and below the bottom f, to form the back of the next compartmentbelow, as shown in Fig. 2.

Should the compartment so formed be too narrow to hold a file, it may beenlarged to suit by withdrawing the front and inserting it in one of thegrooves near the front of the case, at the same time inserting anothernarrow strip f to enlarge the bottom.

The case A is provided with doors E,which have a lock and key, and serveto keep the files always safe and free from dust. tional room may beobtained in small space by making these doors of sufiicient thickness tocontain division-pieces and adjustable compartments formed in thismanner, as seen in Fig. 1.

It will thus be seen that I am enabled to form a case capableof holdinga large number of papers occupying butasmall space and very econominalin construction and convenient in use. The top of each file protrudesfrom its compartment sufficiently to expose the title indorsed upon it,and as the series of spaces are arranged uponan incline each file can beseen at a glance, the desired one selected, and Withdrawn without dangerof disturbing any other.

The case is especially intended for use in a court-room, and when soused the main case and its doors may each'be used for a separate classof cases, and marked Common law, .Oriminal, Chancery, or in any otherway most desirable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A file-holder consisting of the case A, having an inclined frontprovided with suitable doors, the inclined divisions O 0, provided witha series of vertical and horizontal grooves c d crossing each other, andthe adjustable partition-strips ef, said strips being arranged in thehorizontal and vertical grooves of the inclined divisions O to formvertical overlapping compartments for the reception of files or papers,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALVIN L. BINGO.

Witnesses;

WILLIs J. WELLs, Guns. 0. DOOLITTLE.

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